Hey a Christmas Morning surprise brings a grandfather to tears. So what was in that hat . The answer today, wednesday, december 26th, 2012. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im sav annah guthrie. And im willie geist in this morning for matt. Interestingly enough that reaction we just saw from that man, the same reaction you had when you opened that set of one direction dolls. Funny, i was going to say that was your reaction when i gave you that fruitcake. Little tough but nice nonetheless. Record number of Christmas Day tornadoes. Part of the system thats being blamed for at least three deaths. Now its heading our way. Well have the latest straight ahead. Also this morning president obama cutting short his vacation in hawaii, heading back to washington that. Will happen tonight to work on a fiscal cliff deal. Dont wait for washington to re
I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve. I promise you and im going to keep serving and fighting in the same way that you have seen in the past. Thank you. [applause] and i can tell you that one of the things as i travel across the country, everyone always wants to know how in the world we got the best federal delegation in the country. All i tell them is that South Carolina is blessed. We have a great group of legislators that fight every day, that get what we want and they fight for it. They just dont go along with the pack. They fight for it. I am so thankful that so many members came to be supportive of tim. I want to make sure that we have our senior senator speak who i often, who i enjoy working with and who has been there every time i have called him, senator lindsey graham. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Well, tim, if you add up all of the courses that we flew together, people will begin to understand how the government works. Here is the good news. I made 80
Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo